MONTPELIER, Vt. — The name of a former University of Vermont president may be removed from the library because of his support of research into eugenics that helped lead to sterilizations. He also increased educational access to students, including women, and kept the school financially viable during the Great Depression, the panel wrote. But trustees learned after he died that the university was nearly bankrupt and in debt, according to the committee. The faculty and student proposal to remove his name focused on his support of the eugenics research, however. “Yet we believe given the record of his direct eugenics support, and the prominence of the undergraduate library to UVM students, faculty and staff, as well as to the larger surrounding communities, the honour of having the library named after him should now be denied.”

Source: National Post October 18, 2018 16:07 UTC